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Jacobo Ocharan

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More than 25 years working in Risk Management and Climate Action. His experience began in 1996 during the African Great Lakes Crisis as coordinator of a small housing construction project for Intermón Oxfam. Over the next 6 years, he expanded his responsibility as Oxfam’s Director of Emergencies. During that period he worked directly on the ground in more than 20 countries, including some large-scale disasters such as Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and the earthquakes in Gujarat, El Salvador, Pakistan, and Haiti.

As of 2006, he specializes in the field of disaster prevention and population capacity building for Oxfam USA. From 2012 to 2019 he worked as Head of Risk Reduction and Climate Change at Plan International. In 2019 he returned to Oxfam to lead the Global Climate Initiative, which seeks to align all Oxfam Climate Action interventions under a logic that integrates climate change mitigation based on transitions that are fair with adaptation and its resilience focus.

In addition to the work of management and prevention of humanitarian responses, in recent years he has engaged in training new professionals in the field of humanitarian action, mentoring lessons in specialized masters at universities such as Brandeis University (MA, USA) Fordham University (NY, USA), the University of Barcelona and the University of Deusto. He has also published several articles in specialized journals, particularly in the field of the power of knowledge and local action for climate change adaptation and disaster response.

He has a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master’s in Journalism from El País / Autonomous University of Madrid. In recent years he has engaged in art as political action, particularly through printmaking.